ABSTRACT
New Urbanism ideology calls for the compact communities to be linked through improved public transit and carefully designed streets that support interaction between civic and commercial centres and diverse residential areas. At the street level, the New Urbanism approach reinstates the local street as a human habitat rather than a machine mover or a barrier, with small streets providing controlled access within the neighbourhood and with residential structured oriented to these narrow streets. The overall thrust of the New Urbanism approach is to resurrect a traditional neighbourhood development modelled after the 1920s work and for the traditional neighbourhood development to be the building block of a sustainable urban environment. The real challenge for New Urbanism is not just to redesign the new suburban model but to tackle of the problems of the old urbanism, and to reintroduce viable community forms in existing urban areas. In its current mode, New Urbanism reinforces the basic components of sprawl.
